GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

Post by somewhatgoated » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 11:41 AM UTC

rvnx wrote: post #204

paulgdp wrote: post #100

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> Yep, police can simply ask anyone for their passwords and if you don't give it up they can put you in jail. This is precisely the reason why I don't want to visit the US at the moment. The USA immigration officers can ask me to forfeit my phone's password and look at all my photos, documents, messages, call logs etc, WITHOUT SUSPICION. Some of that data can even stay on their servers for decades, and who knows if i…

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Post by gizajob » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 11:41 AM UTC

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Americans perception of themselves always baffles me. You have police brutality regularly, ICE raids shooting protestors and deporting people (inc those with the right to be there) to El Salvador, people who write critical articles of Israel denied visas, servicemen dying in the Middle East, your president openly stealing from your government via slush funds and his sons, and so little accountability that the only pe…

That's all true, and I had a great time in London and many eu countries. Do immigrants have the same full rights as British citizens? Would I be willing to re evaluate my visa every X years? Will I be willing to be uprooted if it's denied? And how will childcare work when my elders are all here? I think your post was correct as far as the state of the US, but your final paragraph is reductive. It's not always easy fo…

Post by trumpdong » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 11:41 AM UTC

foldr wrote: post #105

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Can we stop it with this two tier justice system nonsense?

There's a thought experiment in the philosophy of mind where your brain is gradually replaced, neuron by neuron, with artificial units that replicate the exact input and output mappings of the original neurons. The question, of course, is whether this change is accompanied by any change in your subjective conscious experience. I notice that a variant of this experiment is now playing out on HN in real time, with vari…

Post by xg15 » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 11:42 AM UTC

devsda wrote: post #155

pogue wrote: post #20

Someone in the comments of that post linked to a long FAQ section for GrapheneOS about how apps can identify it and so forth [1]. I don't understand why it doesn't just attempt to spoof that's it's stock Android/Google everywhere it possibly can? [1] https://grapheneos.org/faq#:~:text=Apps%20can%20detect%20tha...

The goal is to normalize the usage of alternative OS. The moment you find workarounds and not question, you accept their position and eventually you'll run out of workarounds. 'you can still do X through Y, they are not removing it' is a popular and often the top reply on posts related to companies tightening their walled gardens. It gives an immediate solution to the problem but it doesn't address the core issue. I…

Post by jadamson » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC

lwhi wrote: post #82

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The bodycam literally shows a police officer responding to a man who's been stabbed with "I don't think you have mate", just because his killer said the man was racist.

I'll make this simple for you. The behaviour of one officer does not mean that we should no longer live in a diverse society. This is one incident. The officer is question made a terrible call. The fact that people like you are using this as ammunition to further frankly racist aims, is an egregious afront to everyone living in the UK.